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Enough: True Measures of Money, Business and Life - John C. Bogle |
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Throughout his legendary career, John C. Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Mutual Fund Group and creator of the first index mutual fund, has helped investors build wealth the right way and led a tireless campaign to restore common sense to the investment world. Along the way, he's seen how destructive an obsession with financial success can be. Now, with Enough, he puts this dilemma in perspective. Inspired in large measure by the hundreds of lectures Bogle has delivered to professional groups and college students in recent years, this book will help you discover what it really means to have "enough" and how close you are to really having it. |
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September 14, 2010 |
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Class Hours:
9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
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Carnegie Institution
1530 P Street, NW
Auditorium
Washington, DC
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Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Substainable Lifestyle - David Wann |
| Career, Quality of Life and Leadership |
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Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle outlines a new way of life that can deliver twice the satisfaction for half the resources. What we eat, where we live, where we work, and what we buy are all topics of discussion, and all can be assets that build immunity to over-consumption. Steve Wann shows readers how to recapture a more abundant and sustainable lifestyle. "When we change a few key priorities, many of our material wants will cease to be obsessions." |
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October 5, 2010 |
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Class Hours:
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
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USGS Rocky Mountain Mapping Auditorium
Denver Federal Center, Building 810
Lakewood, CO
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Building on the Promise of Diversity - R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr. |
| Department of the Interior Executive Forum Series |
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"We have a diverse society and a diverse workforce. Have we done enough to reap the full benefits of this diversity? One of the world's most acclaimed experts says, �not yet� -- and shows us how to move forward." Building on the Promise of Diversity presents Dr. R. Roosevelt Thomas' Strategic Diversity Management approach, a results-focused, five-step process for applying diversity management toward the advancement of organizational and community goals. Diversity is the reality of America today. Whether you let diversity be a drain on your organization or a dynamic contributor to your mission, vision, and strategy is both a choice and a challenge. Building on the Promise of Diversity gives you the insights and skills you need to navigate through simmering tensions -- and find creative solutions for achieving cohesiveness, connectedness, and common goals. |
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October 13, 2010 |
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Class Hours:
8:30 AM – 12:30 PM
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South Interior Building (SIB)
1951 Constitution Ave. NW
Auditorium
Washington, DC
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable - Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
| Career Balance and Diversity |
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A black swan is a highly improbable and unpredictable event that carries a massive impact. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. In The Black Swan, bestselling author and epistemologist Nassim Nicholas Taleb explains everything we know about what we don�t know. According to Taleb, humans are hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focused on generalities. We restrict our thinking to the irrelevant and inconsequential, while large events continue to surprise us and shape our world. The Black Swan is about randomness and uncertainty and offers surprisingly simple tricks for dealing with black swans and benefitting from them. |
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October 21, 2010 |
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Class Hours:
9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
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Carnegie Institution
1530 P Street, NW
Auditorium
Washington, DC
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